Botanical Snobbery for the Gardening Addict

A few roses did very well this year. One was Abraham Darby, an Austin rose that I’ve grown for a few years. It tolerated the winter cold as well as the spring freeze-thaw for the first time. It was covered in…

Summer escaped me again and we are now heading straight into winter. I did have time to take pictures of quite a few blooms, though the weeding and fertilizing were neglected after July. One of my recent interests has been…

July has brought rain and cooler weather than June. The daylilies are blooming in full force, but many blooms are damaged by the storms. I have been hybridizing daily and have pods setting fairly well. Most of my sweet peas…

Summer has gotten off to an interesting start. June was rather dry and given the lack of rain last year, the early daylilies were off to a slow start. The sweet peas and other spring annuals nearly burnt out before…

The academic year started before I could hit submit on this post and now, suddenly, it is November. Sigh. But we still haven’t gotten any freezing weather. I have pictures to sift through of the fall bouquets, but not as…

June has become quite dry. We just had our first rain in at least three weeks. Luckily, the irrigation system has managed to pull everything through until we had a break in the weather. There is a drastic difference in…

I considered attempting to write this entire post as an alliteration, but have since decided that would be too time consuming so the title will have to appease you for now. Late spring perennials are blooming and early summer perennials…

We are having a somewhat temperamental spring after our mild winter. A few days of snow and a hard frost in April were followed by days that climbed to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. It seems to have settled now, cooling off…